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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. No tribute to the latent power of the theatre is as telling as that paid to it by what?
(a) Violence.
(b) Bigotry.
(c) Respect.
(d) Censorship.
2. The true meaning of a theatre piece only becomes apparent when an audience is what?
(a) Present and reacting.
(b) Listening.
(c) Alive.
(d) Rapt.
3. The author believes that an architect of the theatre is better off if he works like a what?
(a) Scene designer.
(b) Visceral artist.
(c) Community builder.
(d) Costume designer.
4. "The epic writer of _____ plays seldom brings to his work this same fine sense of human individuality: perhaps because he is unwilling to regard a man's strength and a man's weakness with equal impartiality."
(a) Marxist.
(b) Surrealist.
(c) Absurdist.
(d) Dadaist.
5. What is the only "interesting difference" between the theatre and the cinema?
(a) The cinema shows big stars.
(b) The cinema flashes images from the past.
(c) There is no violence in theatre.
(d) There is no immediacy in the theatre.
Short Answer Questions
1. Joan Littlewood dressed her soldiers as what to create an alienation effect?
2. The author says in "The Immediate Theatre", "At least one can see that everything is a _______ for something and nothing is a _______ for everything."
3. The sort of play that Shakespeare offers us is never just what?
4. Who created the method termed "alienation" in the theatre?
5. Who wrote Sergeant Musgrave's Dance?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author view Method acting?
2. What is the audience's role in a final production?
3. How does the author describe the difference between "Rough Theatre" and "Holy Theatre"?
4. What does the author say of change and liberation regarding "The Rough Theatre"?
5. The author gives a formula for creating and defining theatre. What is this formula?
6. How does the author compare the cinema to the theatre?
7. How does the author feel that Brecht approaches the "Holy"?
8. Who is Bertolt Brecht and what was his major contribution to the modern theatre?
9. How does Shakespeare embody both The Rough Theatre and The Holy Theatre?
10. How does the author describe the difference between staging in "rough" theatre versus traditional theatre?
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